[EM] Re: Obvious(?) extension of DMC to range

[Araucaria Araucana]

On 30 Aug 2005 at 12:13 UTC-0700, Adam Tarr wrote:
> Seems simple enough.
>
> DMC, on a rated (graded?) ballot.
>
> In stead of using approval score to measure defeat strength, use
> average rating.
>
> Good method?  I dunno.
>

I have no objection to this, and it could be an even better method.
The voter then has more precise control over exactly how much their
vote contributes to a candidate's approval rating.  But there are
three drawbacks I see:

  - Ratings to ordinal conversion could be confusing.  Not a
    showstopper, just requires some education.

  - There needs to be a way to give several candidates equal ratings
    but also rank them differently:

    For example,

        W, X, Y and Z are each given the same rating, say 100 points,
        but the voter wishes to rank them as W > X=Y > Z.

  - Resulting complexity of ballot.

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